On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 8:17 PM, anatoly techtonik <techto...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a way to know encoding of string (bytes) literal > defined in source file? For example, given that source: > > # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- > from library import Entry > Entry("текст") > > Is there any way for Entry() constructor to know that > string "текст" passed into it is the utf-8 string?
I don't think so. However, if you declare that to be a Unicode string, the parser will decode it using the declared encoding, and it'll be a five-character string. At that point, it doesn't matter what your source encoding was, because the characters entered will match the characters seen. Entry(u"текст") ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list